{"id":741727,"date":"2026-08-18T09:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T09:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/741727\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T09:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T09:56:10","slug":"former-heavyweight-champion-who-beat-lennox-lewis-will-now-return-in-september-after-12-years-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/741727\/","title":{"rendered":"Former heavyweight champion who beat Lennox Lewis will now return in September after 12 years out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/lennox-lewis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lennox Lewis<\/a> suffered defeat just twice in his legendary career, and while he may have avenged both of those losses, one of the two men to have trumped \u2018The Lion\u2019 is set to return to action next month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/48865942\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Lewis first lost out to Oliver McCall<\/a> on a shocking night at Wembley Stadium in 1994, surrending his WBC crown, but the London-born knockout artist got his revenge in their rematch two-and-a-half years later, halting \u2018The Atomic Bull\u2019 after five rounds of action.<\/p>\n<p>Then, in 2001, Lewis got stopped once again, as <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/features\/on-this-day-lennox-lewis-suffered-a-stunning-upset\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hasim Rahman pulled off the upset in South Africa<\/a>, but in their second encounter, just seven months later, Lewis scored one of the most iconic knockouts in heavyweight history to reclaim his WBC, IBF and lineal heavyweight titles and tee up a major showdown against Mike Tyson.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a quarter of a century on from his first reign as heavyweight world champion, a 53-year-old Hasim Rahman is set to end a 12-year run of inactivity, but his comeback will not take place as originally planned after his fight with Robert Simms, scheduled for Tuesday, August 18, was cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, \u2018The Rock\u2019 will make his ring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/hasim_the_rock_rahman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">return against 40-year-old Phillip Triantafillo<\/a> in a six-round bout for the USA Indiana State Heavyweight Title on Thursday, September 24, that will take place at the Hammond Sportsplex.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Rahman\u2019s son Sharif Rahman is also continuing the family legacy, <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/son-of-ex-heavyweight-champ-joins-bkb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">having recently signed with BKB Bare Knuckle Boxing<\/a>, switching to the ungloved scene despite boasting an undefeated nine-fight record in the professional ranks.<\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lennox Lewis suffered defeat just twice in his legendary career, and while he may have avenged both of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-741727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}